Unsigned Overflow in C
Consider the following piece of C code: #include <stdint.h> uint32_t inc(uint16_t x) { return x+1; } When compiled with gcc-4.4.3 with flags -std=c99 -march=core2 -msse4.1 -O2 -pipe -Wall on a pure x86_64 system, it produces movzwl %di,%eax inc %eax retq Now, unsigned overflow is predicted in C. I do not know much about x86_64 assembly, but as far as I can see the 16bit argument register is being moved to a 32bit register, which is incremented and returned. My question is, what if x == UINT16_MAX. An overflow would occur and the standard dictates x+1==0, right? However, given %eax is a 32bit